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Animated Headline News

Shortlists Announced For Kidscreen Awards 2011 Programming Categories

Leading kids entertainment magazine KidScreen is thrilled to announce the programs that have been shortlisted for the 2011 KidScreen Awards, which pay tribute to outstanding content from around the world that entertains and engages children and their families.

Design Headline News

ChampionNAD Contest, Call for votes!

It is with much pleasure that the National Animation and Design Centre (NAD Centre) is announcing its very first viral contest entitled “ChampionNAD”.

Dreamworks Headline News

2010 Annual Annie Award Nods Announced

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announces nominations today for the 38th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation including best animated feature, television production, commercials, short subjects, video games and outstanding individual achievements.

Headline News

Extended Lucent Heart Star Contest Offers $1,000 In Cash Plus Prizes

Gamania Digital Entertainment announced that it’s extending the deadline to enter its big Lucent Heart Star contest until December 18th, giving guys and girls additional time to make a big impression and walk away with fantastic prizes.

Blogs

KLIK 2010: 5 Non-Stop Days of The Best of Animation

By Dan Sarto | Monday, November 29, 2010 at 5:40pm

I first met the organizers of the KLIK Animation Festival at the Annecy Animation Festival a couple of years ago and they assured me that their festival is fun, fun, fun. When they invited me to Amsterdam to be on the Short Films and Political Animation jury, I jumped at the opportunity and it did turn out to be some serious fun.

Headline News

SIGGRAPH Asia Reveals Its Elements Of Imagination

The third edition of the highly anticipated ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia will be held in the capital city of Seoul, Korea, from 15 to 18 December at Coex Convention and Exhibition Center.

Festival Headline News

Red Stick Festival Announces 2010 Best of the Fest Winners

The Red Stick International Animation Festival has selected the finalists for its seven Best of the Fest film competition categories from among the record 437 films submitted this year.

Animation Headline News

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Publishes Computer Animation Festival and Tech Paper Video Trailers

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 3:35pm

SIGGRAPH Asia, coming this December 15-18 in Seoul, South Korea, has published their Computer Animation Festival and Technical Papers video trailers.

Awards Blogs

Idiots’ Diary #22: The Oscar Qualification Gauntlet

The big problem with the Oscars is that if there are more than 15 films qualifying, then the number of nominations expands from 3 films to 5. Obviously, with 5 films I have a much better shot, like Secret of the Kells last year. But with only 3 films nominated, they usually go to the Hollywood Blockbusters.

Effects Headline News

VES To Honor Christopher Nolan With Visionary Award

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 11:17am

The Visual Effects Society will honor Academy Award nominated filmmaker Christopher Nolan with the inaugural VES Visionary Award at the 9th Annual VES Awards on Friday, January 28, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

Animation Headline News

Simpson's Mike Scully Receives WGAW’s Lifetime Achievement

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 11:15am

Veteran animation and television writer Mike Scully has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West Animation Writers Caucus’ 13th annual Animation Writing Award, recognizing his prolific career and outstanding contributions to the craft of film and television animation writing, as well as his efforts to organize animation writers on behalf of the Writers Guild.

Studios Headline News

Amazon Launches Amazon Studios

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 9:29am

Amazon.com, Inc. today launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made.

Blogs

Final Thoughts on the Films at Ottawa

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 5:22pm

No other festival I’m aware of consistently generates as much controversy as does the Ottawa Festival. People may scratch their heads at the judging decisions in Annecy (insert favorite French joke here), but in Ottawa, beer-fueled grumbling and incessant whining are as much a part of the annual festivities as head-scratching competition screening introductions and the cavalcade of toothless panhandlers lining Rue Rideau.

Headline News

SIGGRAPH 2011 Beckons for Films

SIGGRAPH 2011 invites you to “Make it Home” at the 38th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 7 - 11 August 2011 in Vancouver.

Headline News

SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival Winners, Featured Speakers Revealed

SIGGRAPH Asia continues its tradition to present the best in computer graphics and interactive techniques to a worldwide audience, this year from the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, Korea where its third edition will be held.

Headline News

Winner Of The Angelina Ballerina Children’s Dance Award Announced

Tianna Marie Carter, 10, from May Bank, Newcastle, was today announced as the winner of the Angelina Ballerina Dance Award, in association with the National Dance Awards, following the final auditions at English National Ballet’s studios yesterday.

Autodesk Headline News

VES and Autodesk Announce VES Student Award 2011

VES is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for its annual Student Award, exclusively sponsored by Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in entertainment software.

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